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Letters Patent No. 63,863, dated April 16, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN CORSET GLASPS. y

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, C. O. CROSBY, of New Haven, in the county of NeW.Haven, and State of Connecticut, have invented 'a new Improvement in Corset Clasps; and I do hereby declare the following, when teken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of referenceV marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Figures l'a-nd 2, two common steels with the clasps placed thereon.

Figures 3 and 4 central sections ofthe two parts of the clasp enlarged.

Figures 5 and 6 illustrate lthe object and operation of my invention.

This invention relates to the manner of attaching the clasps to the steels, and consists in forming a paix ot loops of metal, to one of which the hook is attached or formed thereon, and the other provided wiih a corresponding eye so that the steels may he `passed freely through the loops and not permanently secured thereto.

'Heretofore the hook and eye have been attached permanently to the steels, which necessitates the ripping of the pockets in order to remove the steels as for washing or for other purposes.- Theobjeet of myinvention is to avoidV the expense of attaching the hooks and eyes to the steels, as also the necessity of ripping or opening the pockets for any purpose.

To enable others to construct and vuse my improvement,-l: will proceed to describe the seme as illustrated in the accompanying drawings. i i

A is the hook-loop, B the eye-loop, and C C the steels. The hook-loop is formed-from thin sheet metal', eut by dies or otherwise into the proper form, and doubled so as to form a loop, as seen in iig. 3, the two ends secured together bye double-headed rivet, D, the second head serving to form the hook. The eye-loop B I formv from sheet-inetalin similar manner as for the hook-loop, punching the two ends to forni the eye al, and doubling so as to form a loop, as seen in iig. el, having left :t tongue, tl, in the under part oi' the eye, which, when the loop has been doubled, I turn up over and hard down upon the upper part, as denoted in g. 4, thus securing the two parts together. This completes the hook and eye-loops. The steels C C are of the usual form. Fig. 5 represents Vone of the pockets in the edge of a corset, un opening being formed :ttf for the insertion of the loop B, and the pbcket formed so as to permit the steel C to pass vfreely therethrough.. First, insert the loop, as denoted in 5, into the pocket, then insert the steel into the pocket, as seen iniig. 5, passing the one through the other, as seen in iig; 6, thus inserting as many of the loops as are required i'or securing the corset. When it is desired to remove the steel, as in ease of its being broken, or for the purpose of washing the corset, simplydraw out the steel from the pocket and loops andlthen remove the loops. Thus the original finish of the pocket and odge of the corset. is preserved; and when, as in caseof breakage, new steels are required they may 'be purchased without the loops, and consequently at a much less expense than when constructed in the'usual manner with the hooks and eyes rivetedthereon. v i i,

I am aware that the hookl and eye have been attached to the steels without the se of rivetsby a plate of sheet metal, formed with tongues upon either end turned up over and struck herd down upon the steels, thus fixing the hook and eye as firmly to the steel as if riveted thereon. I therefore do not wish to be understood as broadly claiming securing the hooks and eyes to their respective steels without the use of rivets, but what I do claim as myinvention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The loop B, formed in theinanner'deseribed, its two ends secured by the tongue el, substantially as set forth.

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Witnesses:

JOHN E. EARLE, JOHN H. SnUMwAr. 

